The Sense of these things, caused me to Preach a Sermon, which might Exc••e and Assist Speedy Repentance, in that Congregation, which I would awfully ••member my self, Accountable to the Lord Jesus for. The Due Season, which this, Homely, but I hope, wholesome Food, was adapted unto, was at the Request and Presence of a miserable Murderer, then under a just Sentence of Death, to be speedily Executed on him. The Man was one HUGH STONE, of Andover; who upon a Quarrel between him and his own ••ite, about Selling a piece of Land, having some words as they were walking together on a certain Evening, very […] reached a stroke at her Throat with a shar• Knife, and by that one stroke, fet••ell […] the Soul of her, who had made him a […] of several Children, and would […] yet another to him, is she had […] a few Weeks longer in the World. The […] man, was too soon surprised by his Neighbours, to be capable of denying the Fact; and so be pleaded Guilty, upon his Trial. Being under Condemnation, and his End hastening upon him, he gave me his Desires to hear a Ser••• from me, before be Dy'd. Wherefore, I thought there was now before me […] Due Season, to make a Food of such Things, […] I now also permit ⟨image ?⟩others (and to permit them, is all I have done) to Print for the Edification of such as the Publishers propound thereby to benefit. I confess that I had not so much as One Day allowed […] for my Original Preparations of the Sermon; and therefore, not being able exactly to keep what I did not, could not write, necessitates me to Alter, and doubtless to Amend some Imperfections in it. Yet it is very near, what it was at its first Delivery; and from the Experience which formerly I have had, in […] a Discourse of this kind, I encourage my self, with Hopes, that notwithstanding all the Weaknesses in it, I may find in the Day of the Lord Jesus, That I have not Laboured in v••n. The Sermon is plain; but besides my inclination at all Times to make none but such even an Heathen Seneca would ••ve thought me, that on this occasion any other […] have been improper. I excuse not the meanness of the Composure; but an waiting upon the Eternal Spirit, who breathes how, and […] where, He please, to make it profitable.
The Sense of these things, caused me to Preach a Sermon, which might Exc••e and Assist Speedy Repentance, in that Congregation, which I would a•fully ••member my self, Accountable to the Lord Jesus for. The Due Season, which this, Homely, but I hope, wholsome Food, was adapted unto, was at the Request and Presence of a miserable Murderer, then under a just Sentence of Death, to be speedily Executed on him. The Man was one HUGH STONE, of Andover; who upon a Quarrel between him and his own ••ite, about Selling a piece of Land, having some words as they were walking together on a certain Evening, very 〈…〉 reached a stroke at her Throat with a shar• Knife, and by that one stroke, fet••ell 〈…〉 the Soul of her, who had made him a 〈…〉 of several Children, and would 〈…〉 yet another to him, is she had 〈…〉 a few Weeks longer in the World. The 〈…〉 man, was too soon surprised by his Neighbours, to be capable of denying the Fact; and so be pleaded Guilty, upon his Trial. Being under Condemnation, and his End hastening upon him, he gave me his Desires to hear a Ser••• from me, before be Dy'd. Wherefore, I thought there was now before me 〈…〉 Due Season, to make a Food of such Things, 〈…〉 I now also permit ⟨image ?⟩others (and to permit them, is all I have done) to Print for the Edification of such as the Publishers propound thereby to benefit. I confess that I had not so much as One Day allow'd 〈…〉 for my Original Preparations of the Sermon; and therefore, not being able exactly to keep what I did not, could not write, necessitates me to Alter, and doubtless to Amend some Imperfections in it. Yet it is very near, what it was at its first Delivery; and from the Experience which formerly I have had, in 〈…〉 a Discourse of this kind, I encourage my self, with Hopes, that notwitstanding all the Weaknesses in it, I may find in the Day of the Lord Jesus, That I have not Laboured in v••n. The Sermon is plain; but besides my inclination at all Times to make none but such even an Heathen eneca would ve thought me, that on this occasion any other have been improper. I excuse not the menness of the Composure; but an waiting upon the Eternal Spirit, who breathes how, and where, He please, to make it profitable.
